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Saturday, October 2, 2010

Second Hand Saturday! A Book-A-Week Giveaway 21

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Welcome toSecond Hand Saturday!! In an attempt to clear our bookshelves, and pass on great used books to our stalkers followers, Amy, Kit, Abigaile, Austin and I have decided to hold weekly giveaways of some of the books on our bookshelves! Every Saturday, we will post the books available, and the following Saturday, we will announce the winner and our next challenge. The winner will get to choose a book from the list and we will ship it to that lucky person! Each week we will have a different challenge to complete (see below). YOU MUST BE A FOLLOWER TO ENTER! Open Internationally. Ends at 10:00 pm EST the following Friday!

If you are a blogger, and would like to do your own Second Hand Saturday giveaway, link up with Mr. Linky at the end of this post! (You don't have to participate every week, just link up whenever you'd like to join in!)

To see the book on Amazon, click the book name. To see our review (if we've done one) click on PBR for the Parental Book Reviews content review, or RT for the Reading Teen blog review. Good luck!!

I think the scariest book that I have read is Pet cemetary and It by Stephen King. Anything by Stephen King really creeps me out. Some of Dean Koontz's too, I love his books, but they don't give me the shivers like Stephen Kingsjune111@att.net

I don't really read scary stories (although I wish I did) but there was this one book I read called The Devil's Arithmetic and it was about the Holocaust. It wasn't like "Boo!"-scary, but it definitely terrified me while I was reading it and I cried a lot. Especially the ending...

My worst scary book is the Little Book of Etiquette. Really how does one accomplish all those benign tasks of preforming so properly! My daughter brought home a copy since she wanted to have a 'formal' dinner and she was astonished that we did now own all the proper cutlery needed.It is pretty scary, especially the proper ladylike way to extract snails for escargot, oh that was filled with horror with that tiny spoon!

I haven't read many scary books. They are something I avoided when I was younger, and have just barely decided I might like to read. So, even though I didn't find it particularly scary, I'd have to go with The Forest of Hands and Teeth, because zombies are kind of nuts.

The scariest book I've ever read was Needful Things by Stephen King--but it's not something I'd recommend to teens!

Nor is my favourite Horror story, The Turn of the Screw by Henry James.

But I think I can recommend Neal Shusterman's YA Horror. I read his Red Rider's Hood, a new take on "Little Red Riding Hood" and werewolves, not knowing it was meant to be scary and was properly chilled. And I've just finished Full Tilt, about an evil amusement park that wants your soul. Great stuff!

I don't really read scary books because I'm a big chicken and don't like to get scared even though I watch scary movies. haha but it has to be during the day and with the lights on :) I guess the scariest book I read was Pet cemetary by Stephen King

I haven't read a bunch of scary books but gotta say that I've gotten some great ideas from the comments and think I might start reading that genre again! I think the scariest books I have read is probably Bram Stoker's "Dracula" and "Live Girls" by Ray Garton!

I'm not really one for scary books (although books are a lot easier to handle than movies!). But the scariest book I ever read was Scavenger Hunt by Christopher Pike. I was maybe 10 years old when I read it and refused to read another Pike book until well into high school.

hum... i don´t really read scary stories... i like them but i prefer romance so i don´t have time enough to read about horror... but i will like to participate in the giveaway!! i don´t remember very well what we have to do, only a comment?? a mail?? a form?? i don´t remember...please answer me in andiiblogs(at)hotmail(dot)com thanks!!P.S. i will read the post again only to see if i skip a line xDbye

I don't read scary books because scary things make me fear everything just like scary movies and etc. Though I have tried reading S. King's book once - maybe it wasn't the best book of his because I didn't find it interesting at all and didn't finished it. So I don't have a favorite scary book. xlacrimax at gmail dot com

The scarriest book I've read was Carrie by Stephen King. I don't really like horror genre, but I was curious about King's books, and that was the first one of his that I've read. I actually quite liked his writing style:)

I don't really read scary books, but the one book that I did find scary was Stolen by Lucy Christopher. Although it's not a common kidnapping tale, I found the notion of possible Stockholm Syndrome very scary. The book completely messed up my mind.LOVED IT!

I was young when I read The Vanished by Celia Rees. I wasn't really into reading back then but we had a subject in highschool in which we weren't doing anything for a few weeks. So I borrowed it from my classmate. It was the first time I felt scared because of reading.

Hmm...well I'm not sure if qualifies as a scary book, but it had me scared disturbed for weeks: Life as We knew It. For me so much of the ways people reacted to the end of the world seemed completely believable and made me worry how I'd survive.

I haven't read many scary books so far, but my favorite is Bag Of Bones by the king of horror, Stephen King. That man is a genius, although I was reluctant to read this book at first, at the end not only I was scared but I was also in love. Great read.

I am not a huge fan of scary books, I tend to avoid them. Most books by Stephen King would fit the bill on the scary front. But I am too much of a wimp to actually read any of them! Thanks!seescootread[at]gmail[dot]com

Right now I don't usually choose to read books that are straight scary, however there are certain parts of just random books that end up being scary to me. When I was younger I read Christopher Pike and R. L. Stine like they were going out of style!

I have to admit, for all I remember I read only one scary book. It was only recently and I LOVED it. The book's name was Nevermore by Kelly Creagh and it totally surprised me. I can't wait for the sequel!

The scariest book I've read is Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott. I know it isn't a horror story or anything but the content is scary in a it-could-really-happen kind of way. It's a really wonderful book but you know it shows the dangers of the world. Elizabeth Scott is an amazing writer!!! I so can't wait to read Grace! XDThanks so much for adding Grace there! :)I am so stoked for this week's Secondhand Saturday Giveaway! :D

Should I leave my e-mail?Just in case, here it is,louisse_ang@yahoo.com

When I was in middle school I read the R.L. Stine Fear Street books (not Goosebumps), and I remember them being pretty scary. As far as recently, the Harper Connelly series by Charlaine Harris scares me at times. It's the ghost and suspense kind of fear, not really scared out of my wits. I did have to put Stephen King's Pet Sematary down.

Back in High School I tried to read everything King had ever written. I made it to, up to the most recently released (Bag of Bones). He's got a bunch of horror, but my favorite has been "The Stand." I've read it 4 or 5 times now.

I'm not sure it's strictly scary, because I don't often get scared reading, but it is possible to completely freak me out psycohlogically with a high creep factor. My 'favourite' read that's done that is Neal Shusterman's Unwind. I shudder just thinking about it, but it was so freaking good!

I love scary books, but I have yet to read one that actually scared me. I wasn't even scared in the slightest by the Stephen king books I have read. Although my favorite scary book is The Devouring by Simon Holt. ^_^

I haven't read very many scary books, but I've read every Kay Scarpetta book ever written by Patricia Cornwell, and some of her stuff is super intense. It's technically thriller/murder mystery, but sometimes I've wanted to sleep with the lights on after reading one of them. The first of that series is Postmortem, and its uh-maz-ing and suspenseful. This is a great idea, thanks for the inspiration!

I don't really read scary books... But I loved The Body Finder, The Forest of Hands and Teeth, and The Dead Tossed Waves- Do those count? Starting The Forest of Hands and Teeth at midnight did not give me the easiest time falling asleep. I thought it was kind of scary... anyone else? Or am I just a book baby? (That sounds sort of cool.. book baby... new complement!)